P. N. Harrison

P.N. Harrison is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and dark fantasy based out of the plains of Western Kansas. His short fiction appears in such venues as Starlite Pulp Review, What Lurks: A Cryptid Anthology (Graveside Press), and the Brigids Gate Press anthology Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane. In his day job as an English professor, he has published numerous academic articles on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and books bound in human skin. When not muttering in dead languages, he enjoys watching baseball and going on historic ghost walks with his wife, Ashley. He can be found online on Threads as pnharrison86, Bluesky as pharrison.bsky.social, and at harrisonhorror.wordpress.com.

Read Harrison’s short story “Mari Lwyd” in Horrific Scribes.

Description: Every Yuletide, the Mari Lwyd pays a visit to the inhabitants of this small Welsh community. The locals know to open their doors and join the Mari Lwyd’s song. But, for the tourists on the island, this carol is anything but jolly.